LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Alexandre Vinokourov has beaten the International Cycling Union in court, and won’t have to pay a $1.7 million fine for doping at the 2007 Tour de France.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld Vinokourov’s appeal that the UCI and his Astana team pressured him to declare before the race he would pay one year’s salary toward anti-doping projects if he got a two-year ban.
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